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Lamentations 1:12

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All you people that pass by on the road,\par you don’t seem to care.\par But look at me and see.\par Is there any pain like my pain?\par Is there any pain like the pain\par that has come to me?\par Is there any pain like the pain\par that the Lord has punished me with?\par He has punished me on the day\par of his great anger.\par

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Lord, you were angry at me,\par and the punishment is killing me.\par

With my anger, I will make the sky shake. And the earth will be moved from its place.”

Oh, I (Jeremiah) am hurt badly.\par I am injured and I can’t be healed.\par Yet I told myself,\par “This is my sickness,\par I must suffer through it.”\par

So Judah’s country will become\par an empty desert.\par People will whistle and shake their heads\par every time they pass by.\par They will be shocked\par at how the country was destroyed.\par

The Lord was very angry!\par He punished the people.\par The punishment came like a storm.\par The punishment came like a tornado\par against those wicked people.\par

The Lord will be angry\par until he finishes punishing the people.\par He will be angry until he finishes\par the punishment he planned.\par When that day comes,\par you people of Judah will understand.\par

“This is a very important time for Jacob. {\cf2\super [233]} \par This is a time of great trouble.\par There will never be another time like this.\par But Jacob {\cf2\super [234]} will be saved.\par

So put on sackcloth {\cf2\super [23]} and cry out loud!\par Why? Because the Lord is angry at us.”\par

“Moab, you made fun of Israel.\par Israel was caught by a gang of thieves.\par Every time you spoke about Israel,\par you shook your head and acted like you\par were better than Israel.\par

Now Jerusalem says,\par “I refused to listen to the Lord.\par So the Lord is right for doing these things.\par So listen, all you people!\par Look at my pain!\par My young women and men\par have gone into captivity.\par

Look how the Lord has set\par the Daughter of Zion {\cf2\super [8]} under a cloud.\par He has thrown the glory of Israel\par from the sky to the ground.\par The Lord didn’t keep in mind that Israel was his footstool,\par on the day of his anger.\par

Daughter of Zion, {\cf2\super [18]} \par what can I compare you to?\par What can I compare you to,\par Virgin Daughter of Zion {\cf2\super [19]} ?\par How can I comfort you?\par Your destruction is as big as the sea!\par I don’t think anyone can heal you.\par

“God said those things would happen to us and our leaders—and he made them happen. He made terrible things happen to us. No other city suffered the way Jerusalem suffered.

It will be a dark, gloomy day.\par It will be a dark and cloudy day.\par At sunrise, you will see the army\par spread over the mountains.\par It will be a great and powerful army.\par There has never been anything\par like it before.\par And there will never be anything\par like it again.\par

Why? Because at that time there will be much trouble. There will be more trouble than has ever happened since the beginning of the world. And nothing as bad as that will ever happen again.




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